Andrew Hassam

Andrew was a visiting scholar at Queensland University of Technology in 1999. He was the Director of B.A. in Australian Studies program at the University of Wales, Lampeter. He also has written a volume of short stories, 1988’s To the Edge of the Page, as well as three works of analyzing diary writings and how they reveal cultural differences. In his 1993 book, Writing and Reality: A Study of Modern British Diary Fiction, Hassam explores modern and postmodern diary novels written by British writers, including John Berger, William Golding, and Doris Lessing, from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s. More widely reviewed was Hassam’s 1995 book, Sailing to Australia: Shipboard Entries by Nineteenth- Century British Emigrants, in which he turns his attention to diary texts written by real, though uncelebrated, Britons. Very high praise was accorded Hassam by a Times Literary Supplement critic, who called his analysis “exceptionally rich and fruitful” and his theoretical grasp of the diary form (and related forms) “firm.” While the physical emigration to Australia did not always live up to its promise, this reviewer observed, “Sailing to Australia ... richly fulfills its own promise and deserves every success.”

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Education

Hassam holds a Ph.D.

Career

Andrew was a visiting scholar at Queensland University of Technology in 1999. He was the Director of B.A. in Australian Studies program at the University of Wales, Lampeter.

He also has written a volume of short stories, 1988’s To the Edge of the Page, as well as three works of analyzing diary writings and how they reveal cultural differences. In his 1993 book, Writing and Reality: A Study of Modern British Diary Fiction, Hassam explores modern and postmodern diary novels written by British writers, including John Berger, William Golding, and Doris Lessing, from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s.

More widely reviewed was Hassam’s 1995 book, Sailing to Australia: Shipboard Entries by Nineteenth- Century British Emigrants, in which he turns his attention to diary texts written by real, though uncelebrated, Britons. Very high praise was accorded Hassam by a Times Literary Supplement critic, who called his analysis “exceptionally rich and fruitful” and his theoretical grasp of the diary form (and related forms) “firm.” While the physical emigration to Australia did not always live up to its promise, this reviewer observed, “Sailing to Australia ... richly fulfills its own promise and deserves every success.”

Achievements

Andrew Hassam is known as the fiction and nonfiction writer. His famous books include Sailing to Australia: Shipboard Diaries of Nineteenth-Century British Emigrants and Through Australian Eyes: Colonial Perceptions of Imperial Britain. Hassam’s research interests include links and parallels between Melbourne and Calcutta as post-imperial cities, and the production of Bollywood movies in Australia.